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Why closing all Forms on App Exit?
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09/04/2022 08:03:21
Lutz Scheffler (Online)
Lutz Scheffler Software Ingenieurbüro
Dresden, Germany
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Troubleshooting
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01684122
Message ID:
01684132
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>>Thank you for your input. As I wrote in my message to Dragan, the code above will work in majority of the cases. But since I will include it in a TRY/CATCH, there could be a time when the code will not run. And in this case, the application will try to close with some forms being open.
>>I will test a case with a messagebox() window being open and at the same time trying to close the application.
>
>Messagebox is nearly not solvable. As long as you don't use a custom one, you might issue KEYBOARD '{ESC}' or the like to close a messagbox. Reportpreview there is control, if you use BEHAVIOUR 90. Else there is only KEYBOARD, and the form calling the report needs to know.
>
>I do something like setting a flag to my form telling the form that a child window is open, an then it runs through its form manager trying to close the child form first and deny it's own shut down. Job of QUERYUNLOAD. This needs a timer on application level so it try to shutdown several time. (One must first end all code where, for example, a modal window is involved, then the form.) Complex crap I lost a month till it was working.

During my testing, I find that the messagebox() is not the worst of the possible problems.
I have one big window (modeless) that references a Public object oPassword, in one of the control methods.
So, when I try close the application, while this window is still open, I get an error that "oPassword is not defined". Which tells me that the object oPassword is destroyed and then the application tries to self-close this window.
The conclusion is that the code, above, that closes all open windows, IS important.
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